Canadian Press
Vancouver Sun - CAIRO, Egypt - The Palestinian Authority will boycott banks that balk at transfering money to its government because Hamas is in charge, Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar said. Speaking after meeting Arab League officials in Cairo on

Curtailing lending excesses
Boston Globe - The Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston reported this week that, in recent testing it conducted, discrimination against minorities by mortgage lenders occurred in nearly half of the test cases. The Massachusetts Community & Banking Council released